Dave Matthews Band - live cover of Bob Dylan’s All Along the Watchtower (love it, love it, love it, they just take off after two minutes, turning a two and a half minute song into nearly 11 minutes, this would be so amazing to see live).
Tori Amos - Smells like Teen Spirit (that took guts, she’s totally changed the song, it’s just her and the piano, a very depressing song)
APC - Love Song (cover of the Cure and Black Sabbath’s Diary of a Madman. The original Cure is good but this is better, this one’s lyrics SUCK though but the music is so amazing that you forget all about the lyrics)
Jeff Healey Band - Beatles’ While my guitar gently weeps, still doesn’t beat the original but it’s nice
She sings it, doesn't scream it. It's worth a listen (though most Nirvana fans will probably think she butchered it, because it's nothing like the original)
Sounds like you haven't even heard it 5abi! Yeah there is only one Kurt Cobain, but she doesn't try to imitate him. I think she manages the uncover the true essence of the song. It's not and rebellious anymore, but doesn't mean it's any less better.
This doesn't count as a cover, but I like Paul Weller's Wild Wood (the Portishead remix, at least I think it's a remix).
Yea I just heard that Tori Amos one, she didnt' butcher it at all. It's much peaceful and she's got a good voice. Nice song.
btw has anyone seen that video for this one Tori Amos song (it's really strange) it's got this woman with a head and then it's just a foot, and then there's a guy and he's just a head with a hand. They hop around the entire video, I swear it's so wierd. Anyways, I forgot how the song goes. What was it called?
Mannn that’s an old song hahah. It’s pretty good except the part in when she keeps echoing one of the words “ainn ainn ainn”. Yea that’s pretty annoying. BUT, good song. (I’m talking about the original)
I just heard this and love it, I find it beautiful, and very painful for some reason, especially toward the middle: Tool's live cover of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb.
Bjork's cover of Gloomy Sunday.
Jeff Buckley's cover of Thin Lizzy's Dancing in the Moonlight.
Radiohead's cover of Neil Young (I think)'s After the Gold Rush. Even though Thom Yorke sounds particularly nasal here but it suits the song.